For many people, Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. For many people 13 is an unlucky number. This year, 13 may be lucky for many brides. Already wedding vendors are booked, almost to over booked, on 12-13-14, December 13, 2014.
My question to you is, what is your superstition? For me, when I spill salt, I always throw it over my left shoulder. My Mother did this, my Grandmother, Mimi, did this, my Great Aunt Rose did this. It’s more of a habit than a superstition.
Are you afraid to open an umbrella indoors? That’s a superstition. Are you afraid to walk under a ladder? Many say that’s a superstition, but it’s just plain common sense for safety’s sake. Are you afraid of black cats or to cross the path of a black cat? These are some of the sweetest cats I’ve known!
- Seven years bad luck if you break a mirror. Plus, it’s a mess to clean up.
- Children’s rhyme: step on a crack, break your mother’s back. Break my own back, if I step in a crack in high stilettos
- Clothes worn inside out will bring good luck. No, it means I over-slept, was rushed, had to get dressed in the dark and couldn’t see. Now, I’m a hot mess!
- One of my favorites and I still do this: First, make a wish. Then, take a deep breath and blow out all your birthday candles in one breath. If you do this, your birthday wish will come true. Where is my million?
- Talk about a wives tale: You will have bad luck if you wear an opal and it is not your birthstone. These are some of the prettiest gems I have seen and enjoy wearing. And Opal is not my birthstone.
- Garlic protects you from evil spirits and vampires. We put garlic in a lot of food that we prepare and eat. It must work because I have not seen any evil spirits or vampires.
- If you find a four leaf clover, you will have good luck. Who has ever found a four leaf clover? Not me.
- At the end of a rainbow is a pot of gold. I’m still looking for the leprechaun (and the four leaf clover and the pot of gold).
- Both my Mother and my Grandmother, would put a penny or money in a wallet or a purse when they gave this as a gift for good luck.
- My Mother use to tell me that crickets in the house were a sign of good luck. After awhile, the chirping is annoying.
- She also use to tell me that when my nose itched we were having visitors and when my palm itched, it meant we were getting money. I love an itchy palm.
- Finally, Mom would have us take the wishbone, make a wish and break it. The one with the longer end, their wish would come true. Still waiting for my million.
- I have always been told that ladybugs are good luck.
- An elephant with the tusk up is a sign of good luck.
- Here is a new superstition that I recently learned: wearing new clothes for Easter will bring you good luck. Any excuse for buying new clothes works for me.
- I know this next superstition is true because it always happens to me: washing your car will bring rain. We need to remember this when there is a drought.
- My Dad always told me that finding a penny heads up brings good luck. You should see my lucky penny bank.
- He also said finding a horseshoe brings good luck. When we had horses, we were always finding horseshoes. It meant calling the blacksmith to get the horse re-shod. It was certainly lucky for the blacksmith.
- Of course, for brides to have a happy marriage, they must wear: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. And the wedding veil, which most think as part of the wedding attire, according to superstition, actually protects the bride from the evil eye.
